European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Led to the suburbs Early on and became dependent on  gelling people to actually use rail service May to a Challenge. Stanger believes angeleno will eventually gel in Iho High Speed Groove Lof iwo reasons because icy will tic High Loch image of rail travel and because they will have no Choice Given he continuing implosion of l a traffic Rind the slim Chance of building new cads rail service will nol Clear up congestion on the freeways noticeably Slanger says Dally los Angeles is expected to grow by 3 million people Botwood now and the year 2.000. In los angelas county to Haven t been Auto to build Mote Iro ways Wilh Tho exception of the Century freeway now under cons Duclion and rial s taken 25 years Wilh allot these people coming in and our roads constrained to their limits the Only Hope of increasing capacity will have to come torn the system tie says. Judging from other Sun Belt cities Stanger thinks modern rail service will help mass transit shed is Downtrodden image. I was in Atlanta when Maria opened and thai City was much like los Angeles a lot of freeways and a Strong automobile orientation but the image of rail Rijavel turned out to be More positive than typical bus Marta found Hal 37 percent of its users were new id mass transit. These were people who would not have considered taking a bus but the rail seemed to harmonise Wilh their sell Imago the same thing has happened in Washington. Do. Where a whole spectrum of the Community rides the metro. Every new rail system has had More than its share of Whoso people previously not thought to be its potential Market. This kind of mass transit is not just Lor the poor it s Lor of acc workers for affluent suburban  in fact As los Angeles attracts Grealer numbers of sophisticated emigres who have come to expect High Speed transit ail service May help enhance the City s standing As an International Urban Center. Los Angeles is increasingly becoming a world City says Stanger and people moving Here irom other parts of the world have positive expectations of rail  everybody knows thai it works elsewhere says Wells people go on vacation to Paris or san Francisco and come Back raving about rail service there. Then they say. It la never work Here mostly because we Haven t had a rail system running where they could see it. Once we do. I m sure they la give in a Chance they la try in just to see How it  he get in mtg Bay an Al a Ftp run it Bart mine offer so fort Citco it dents to attn Molive to Cenge Ted highway19b7 freeway laced Lea Angalet Lead the nation in number of ear phone. Dial and drive the talk of the freeway Vaik tempi Frola by Robert Reinhold new York times t is -1.00 . In Southern California and the ire ways have become one big moving Telephone Boot. Don l. Gevirtz a business executive is on the cellular phone in the Back seat of his chauffeured Lincoln Conli Enlal returning Calls during his commute which lakes an hour and a half the Best place to get me during the Day is in the car he says Mohan Nair a Torrance psychiatrist is calling his family fora Little self therapy during a hair pulling traffics Jam. Last month wait started a rage therapy program for Drivers who have trouble controlling heir anger on the clogged freeways. Callers up to a dozen a stay Are advised to keep Calm. As for his own emotions Nair a self professed Workaholic who spends much of the Lime on the Road away from his family says he car phone is saving i rarely see my family during the week he says. This helps me Leel a lot  in new York Chicago Dallas Houston and every other major City the technology of cellular telephones is catering to american business daily life and driving habits in countless ways. Real estate agents stockbrokers doctors sales people reporters truant officers and plumbers Are buying the devices in growing numbers using them for business family communications and among other things to help main lain Law and order. Woe be to the Drunken or reckless Driver spoiled on the Palisades Parkway by Harvey Wachman a commodities broker who communes Between Rockland county and the world Trade Center in naw York. On is Patrick s Day he followed a Drunken Driver keeping the police posted about his location until the urrels could be made. In just three years since the cellular technology was introduced the number of subscribers has risen to about 884.000, according to the cellular telecommunications Industry association a year ago in was 500.000 Nyne Mobile communication says it has morn than 60,000 subscribers in its new Yolk and new England markets. Every major car rental Agency of Lars the phones now in certain cities. But by far the largest Market is los angelas. Laced by freeways and made Tor car phones there Are about 100.000 phones in the area and in seems thai almost every Mercedes and Bow displays the Little Zigzag Antenna Lor Tho cellular phones full Industry of Licals say that the device is nol just a toy of the Rich. We Are seeing More use by unglamorous people with Small businesses said Reed royally a vice president of pastel cellular which along with la cellular serves Iho los angles Basin Tho ides that it s Only movie stars and Hick agents is Prelly much pass " thus for example Gary Garret a Locksmith Lor in years got lived of having to leave the freeway several times a Day to loot for a Telephone Booth now he lakes and makes Callsen the Road sometimes calling customers m their cars and crossing the City several limes in a single Day cellular phones too on that name because the service area is divided into cells each with a Low Power radio trans Miller. A Driver crossing the area is automatically transferred from one transmitter to Tho next without interruption usually Calls including Long distance May be dialled directly As Horn any phone. It is this system Hal has propelled the growth in car phones. Without the cells. The old radio phones were plagued with poor reception and Calls had to be relayed through an operator. While the Industry Hopes to sell inc service More widely to average Consumers Iho great majority of clients so a Are business people who can justly the Cost the phone itself May cos i from $675 to $3,000 in addition there is a monthly charge plus a Limery usage tee in los Angeles he tee is $45 a month Pius 45 cells a minute during Peak hours and 27 cents off Peak. In the Mew York area the charges Are $29 a month plus 55 cents a minute Peak 35 cells off Peak. The average Bill in los Angeles according to pastel is so Amenih some of the phone companies have begun to offer special services la cellular for example. Offers Star  which connects the Duver to Melro Frallic a computerized for notion service and Star find a kind of Mobile yellow pages giving directions to restaurants hotels hospitals and the like the authorities credit phone users with helping to police the highways cellular users have been especially vigilant in is alter male of the recent spate of freeway shootings m this area there have apparently been no  safely problems associated with the use of the phones t us the Lack of a Vacy May be a Hazard to the caller tvs Calls can be listened id by special scanners in a report last year a radio  listened in on severs big shot business and drug deals and oven a planned arson. The stars and stripes